Observed and simulated changes in Antarctic sea ice extent over the past 50 years

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 90-95

  Gagne M E ^a   Gillett, N P ^a   Fyfe, J C ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antarctic; modelling; Nimbus; NSIDC; observations; sea ice

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; MODELS; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTIC; CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERNAL VARIABILITY; NIMBUS; NSIDC; OBSERVATIONS;

ICE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; ICE CORE; POLAR REGION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SIMULATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84921884027     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062231     Document Type: Article

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